Contracts Manager

Summary

Join Abnormal Security as their first Contracts Manager, Procurement, and play a key role in managing and optimizing their procurement contract processes. You will oversee contract lifecycle management, negotiate vendor agreements, and ensure alignment between vendor contracts and company objectives. This role is crucial for streamlining procurement workflows, ensuring compliance, and supporting the company's growth in scaling its vendor relationships effectively.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field
• 8+ years of relevant experience drafting, redlining, and negotiating contracts with at least 3 years at high growth cybersecurity or SaaS company(s)
• Strong understanding of procurement best practices, contract terms, and risk management principles
• Knowledge of global regulatory requirements related to procurement and contract management
• Experience drafting, negotiating, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to manage a high volume of inbound agreements in collaboration with Legal
• Proficiency with Google Docs, Gmail, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Pro, DocuSign, CLM and other Legal Ops tools, and Slack
• Familiarity working across the globe, to support multiple time zones and cultures
• Ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with all key stakeholders
• Excellent time management and organizational skills

Responsibilities

• Own execution of the procurement legal process from intake, resourcing, and execution, meeting or exceeding internal SLOs, and managing KPI tracking and reports
• Advise on, negotiate, and close a wide range of inbound contracts including software licensing, professional services, marketing, NDAs, ensuring that each is aligned with Legal Playbook
• Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of procurement transacting workflows in CLM platform -- each workflow should be specifically designed to capture approvals and metadata to improve contract visibility, compliance, and reporting
• Regularly update and enhance the procurement legal playbooks, collaborating with procurement stakeholders to establish clear guidelines that enable certain contracts to bypass legal review, reducing the need for day-to-day legal involvement in routine transactions
• Work closely with internal stakeholders such as legal, finance, compliance, and business units to ensure contracts meet operational and regulatory requirements
• Train internal teams on procurement contract management policies and processes, ensuring understanding and adherence to company positions and best practices
• Support additional contracts and projects outside of standard inbound agreements as needed

Benefits

• At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits
• Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons
• Base salary range: $131,000 — $155,000 USD